This season the Dallas Cowboys will play on Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and the day after New Year’s. Despite the lack of a holiday tie-in, they’d like to climax their schedule with an unprecedented event in the franchise’s 50-year history: A February game. “You can’t help but know it’s out there,”…
Photos by Eric GarciaAs I said below, I picked, like, the worst possible time to drive north on the tollway to the folks’ Walnut Hill house this evening — or the best, since a bottle of decent wine had already been cracked open for the Rosh. (As I told the…
On the other side is a fresh-off-the-virtual-presses press release from the city warning that by early tomorrow morning, there’s a pretty decent chance that as the Trinity River crests — and, as of right now, NOAA has that happening at 42.8 feet — “some areas of the City may experience…
They’ve been on pre-sale since forever, with “mid-September” as the made-available date. (And at $31 too, including shipping and handling!) But Texas Rangers exec veep of communications John Blake just sent word: Beginning today, “the official Claw & Antler Shirt is now available at the Majestic Grand Slam Shop at…
Moments ago I received from council member Angela Hunt’s office a memo that follows, in which Hunt and seven of her colleagues (Delia Jasso, Vonciel Hill, Steve Salazar, Carolyn Davis, Pauline Medrano, Tennell Atkins and Dwaine Caraway) call for a significant tax hike — 4.91 cents per $100 in valuation…
I’ve left a few messages today for Taylor Burns, the officer at Park Cities Bank charged with tending to 807 Elm Street. As I noted Monday, PCB, which got the property in foreclosure, would like to raze the 85-year-old building sitting in a parking lot across from El Centro, though…
UCR Urban’s Jack Gosnell — who helped convince Forest City to redo the Merc and the Continental — is among those who’ve been charged with recruiting retail to downtown. Which, presumably, is why Aaron Gentry, our pal Justin Terveen and the You+Dallas crew accompanied Gosnell on a tour of downtown,…
Eleven long months ago we got word that while there’d be no big-screen Dallas, TNT was eying a small-screen revisit to Southfork. Since then, nothing — at least, not till today. The Turner-owned network confirms that “an updated version of the classic TV series” is indeed among the four pilots…
Ain’t what it used to be. To me the Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants rank ahead of the Washington Redskins as the Dallas Cowboys’ most fierce rival these days. While the Cowboys have played the Eagles and Giants in playoffs games the last couple years, I don’t recall…
I’ve been getting all kinds of e-mails in recent days concerning tomorrow’s meeting of the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees, which will discuss changing the way students are admitted into vanguards, academies and magnets. Last week word was there’d be a lottery system of some kind included in…
I got some thoughts on the Cowboys this season. And I’m willing to put some mythical money where my piehole is. Over at Bodog.com they’ve got up their propositions for the 2010 season. Let’s cut-and-save and maybe I’ll share the wealth come February 2011. Team Odds to win the 2011…
Like I said Friday, the the FIFA World Cup Soccer Site Selection Committee’s coming to town — tonight, if Hermine doesn’t mind. Last night, Mayor Tom Leppert’s chief of staff, Chris Heinbaugh, sent a few more details concerning the visit in advance of the December 2 decision — as in,…
More than once I’ve directed your attention to the sound track to the long-lost Rolling Stones in-concert doc Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones, filmed during the ’72 Exile on Main St. tour. All of the footage comes from Texas — two shows at the Tarrant County Convention Center, two…
On Saturday we took the 7-year-old who lives in our house to the Trinity River Audubon Center, where he quickly became obsessed with the Pete Delkus-narrated flood-maker showing how high’s too high. So. This morning, out of nowhere, he asked: “Is the Trinity going to flood?” I told him to…
One month since the EPA’s stolid road warriors blew threw Arlington to get your thoughts on pollution from gas drilling, the agency’s making its triumphant return to Dallas today with an all-day public comment session at the Hyatt Regency downtown that kicks off in about an hour. This time ’round,…
10. Even for cup-runneth-over-in-red-flavored-optimism fans, this ain’t good. Your Texas Rangers have lost five in a row (outscored 37-19) and eight of 10, and in the last two nights in Toronto have surrendered a whopping seven homers. Looks more like a slow-pitch softball game with all the dingers. Vernon Wells…
Patrick MichelsHow, ahem, “Walnut Park” looked in the summer of ’09. Now, there’s a little more grass … and graffiti.Twice last summer — in June, then again ’round this time of the year — we checked in on our favorite 42 acres at the intersection of Walnut Hill Lane and…
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White criticized Gov. Rick Perry for failing to find the funds to pay for an additional 1,000 local law enforcement officers and 250 state troopers near the border — part of White’s six-point plan for border security. Speaking this morning at the Hyatt Regency with Dallas…
On Thursday we gave you the no-surprise-there heads-up that, yet again, the Dallas Police Department would be drawing blood from long-weekend drunken drivers who refused to voluntarily turn over a blood or breath sample. Well, the numbers are in: DPD just sent word that 54 people were arrested for driving…
Now that Steve Salazar’s run the City Council’s Public Safety Committee out of the briefing room, his Housing Committee is powering through the afternoon in here for a look at the latest on efforts to place homeless folks into permanent supportive housing. With bullet-pointed stats presented in soothing ocean blues,…
Back in May, Kourtny Garrett, senior vice president of marketing for DowntownDallas, told us that come autumn the organization would be hosting an “outdoor movie series” on the Main Street Garden lawn. Now, the official MSG site says the series is “coming soon,” but Downtown Dallas just sent word: It…
This just in from the Texas Rangers’ PR Department: On Friday, when Your Texas Rangers open a weekend series against the New York Yankees at the Ballpark in Arlington, Blue Man Group will perform. And not just once. Not just, like, after the game. Far from it:On Friday, Blue Man…
